Working women count. (Department of Labor Women's Bureau report)

Women work for pay - in greater numbers, in more occupations, and for more years of their lives than ever before. Today, women account for nearly half of our nation's workforce, and 99 percent of women in America will work for pay sometime during their lives.

Despite the importance of women to today's economy, not enough is known about how women themselves evaluate their work lives. In May 1994, the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor spearheaded a project called Working Women Count! to ask working women about their jobs - what they like, what they do not like, and what they want to change. As part of the Clinton administration effort to "reinvent government," the Working Women Count! initiative reached out with a publicly distributed questionnaire asking women about their work lives. include more than 300 businesses, 900 grassroots organizations, 75 unions, daily newspapers, national magazines and Federal agencies in all 50 States, the Virgin Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico. The Women's Bureau also conducted a telephone survey with a scientifically selected, national random sample. Over a quarter of …